Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-11-12

number OF years to prison, and after they
have suffered and worked out the time. then
tney are allowed to 90 free. And so it is with
All OF us. God passed on US the sentence
by the the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread" We must endure our time Of drtldg-
cry, and then, after while we will be allow
ed TO 90 into comparative liberty. We must
De willing TO endure the sentence. We all
know what drudgery is connected with the
beginning OF any trade or profession, but this
does not continue all our lives, If ii be the
stuocnts, or the mechanics life. know YOU
nave at the beginning many hard time, but
aIter while these things will become easy.
lou VIII be your own master Gods sentence
VIII be satisfied You will be discharged from
prison. Bless God that you have a brain To
thlnk, and hands TO work, and feet to walk
WIN, Tor IN YOUR constant activity, o young
man, is one of your strongest defenses. Put
your trust In God and do your level best. That
child had il right when the horses ran awav
with the load OF wood and he sat upon IL:
When asked If he was frightened, he said:
mo, | PRAYED TO God and hung on like a
beavern
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will be to the young man powerful preserva-
tive against evil. God has thrust into the
toll and fatigue OF life a recreative day, when
the soul is especially to be fed. 1t 10 no new
tangled notion Of a wild-brained reformer, but
an institution established at the beginning.
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harmonious that the body as we'll as the soul
demands this institution. Our bodies are
saven-day clocks, that must be wound up as
often as that, or they will run down. Failure
must come sooner or later to the man who
breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has called it
the Lords Day, and he who devotes 1t to the
world is guilty of robbery. God will not let
the sin 90 UNPUBLISHED either In this world or
the world to come. This is the statement of
a man who had broken this divine enactment: !:
II was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh River. On the Sabbath used to rest,
but never regarded Goo In 1t. One beautiful
Sabbath, when the noise was all husbed. and
the daY was all that loveliness could make IL,
sat down on my piazza, and went to work
inventing new shuttle. neither stopped to
eat or drink till the sun went down. By that
time / had the invention completed. The
next morning / exhibited II, boasted OF nv
days work, and was applauded. The shuttle
was tried and worked well, but that Sabbath
days work cost me thirty thousand dollars
We branched out and enlarged, and the curse
OF heaven was upon me from that day on
ward"
While the divine frown must rest upon him
who tramples upon this statute, Gods special
favor Will be upon that young man who scrup-
ulously observes it. This day, properly OBJ
served. will throw halowed influence over
all the week. The song, and sermon, and
sanctuary will hold back from presumptuous
scenes. That young man who begins the du-
ties of life with either secret or open disre-
spect Of the holy day, venture TO prophesv,
viii meet with no prominent successes. Gods
curse will fall upon his ship, his store, his Of
fee, his studio, his body and his soul The
way Of the wicked He turneth upside down.
In one of the old fables it was said that won
derful child was born in Bagdad, and a magi-
clan could hear his footsteps six thousand
miles away. But can hear in the footstep Of
that young man, on the way to the house of
worship this morning, step not only of life
time of usefulness but the coming step OF
eternal joys OF heavens yet millions Of miles
away.
Again, a noble ideal and confident expecta-
tion of approximating to It will infallbly ad.
vance. The artist completes 10 his mind, the
great thought that he wishes TO transfer TO the
canvas or the marble before be takes up tho
crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out
the entire structure before he orders the work
men to begin, and though there may for long
while seem to be nothing but bundering and
rudeness he has in his mind every Corthin-
THAN wreath, and Gothic arch aud Byzantine
capital The poet arranges the entire plot be-
fore he begins to chime the first canto OF
tingling rhythms. And yet stranger to US,
there are men who attempt TO build their char
acter without knowing whether in the end it
shall be rude traitors den or ST. Marks of
Venice Men who begin to write the intri-
cate poem Of their lives without knowing
whether 1t shall be a Homer's Odyssey or a
rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and ninety
nine men out of thousand are living without
any great life-plot. Booted, and spurred, and
plumed, aud urging their swift courser In the
hottest haste. / come out and ask: "Halloo,
man, whittier awayi" His responce Is: 'rNo-
where" Rush into the busy shop or store of
many a one, and taking the plane out Of the
mans band AMI LAYING down the yard-sticl;
hat. q. tI,sa H., -.
stir and sweatp' The reply will stumble and
break down between teeth and lips. Every
DAYS duty ought only TO be the following up OF
the main plan of existence. Let man be con-
sistant. IL they prefer misdeeds 20 correct
courses Of action, then let them draw out the
design of knavcry. and cruelty. and plunder
Let every days falsehOod and wroug.doing be
added as colOring to the picture. Let bloody
deeds red stripe tue canvas, and the clouds OF
wrathful God hang down heavily over the can
vas, ready to break out in clamorous tempest.
Let the waters be chafed, a froth-tangle, and
green with immeasurable depths. Then take
n torch of burning pitch and scortch into the
frame of the picture the right name for 1t :;
namely, the Souls Suicide. IL one entering
upon the sinful directions would only in his
mind, or on paper, draw out in awful reality
this dreadful future. he would recoil from 1t,
and say: Am | Dante, that by nv own
life should write another Infernon But II
you are resolved to live life such as God aud
good men will approve, do not let it be a vague
dream, an indefinite determination, but in
vour mind or unon naner sketch IL In ali its
minutiae Won cannot know the changes Ia
which Won NAV he subiec,. but Won NAV know
wbot aIwavs will hs right and aIwavs will he
wrong let gentleness and charity and
veracitv. and faith stand I'm the heart
of the sketch a., some atiIi brool,,s .
banlr make ianh and lion i;s
down together Draw two or three of the
trees of life. not frost-strirlen nor ice.gIazed.
nor wind. stripped. but with thick yeriu re
waving like lie Mains Of heaven. On the
darkest cloud Mace the rainbow. that bilow